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2; in the fruticetum are several forms of the golden-bell 

 (Forsythia), mainly from China; a number of the privets? 

 including the California privet, so much used for hedges; 

 a variety of lilacs (Syringa), including the Rouen lilac, 

 hairy Chinese lilac, the Pekin lilac, from northern China, 

 the Himalayan lilac and the common lilac, a native from 

 southeastern Europe to the Caucasus, so frequently culti- 

 vated in gardens, and the genus Forestiera. To the right 

 of the path and following the storax family is the logania 

 family, with species of Buddleia, including the summer 

 lilac, from China. Following this is the vervain family, 

 and some of these shrubs are especially attractive in fruit, 

 among them being the Chinese callicarpa, and the Japa- 

 nese callicarpa; most attractive is the late-flowering clero- 

 dendron, known as kusagi in Japan, where it is native; its 

 flowers have a delicious spicy fargrance, much like that 

 of the sweet-pepper bush; the sepals are a beautiful rose 

 color, while the corolla is creamy white; it blooms late in 

 the summer or early fall, when flowers of shrubs are few. 



We next come to the potato family, shown here by the 

 matrimony vine, a native from China to southeastern 

 Europe, but often found growing wild, its purple flowers 

 followed by bright red berries; most of the hardy represen- 

 tatives of this family are herbs, so must be sought for in 

 the herbaceous grounds, while many of the woody species, 

 and some of the herbs, are tender, and may be found in 

 house 2 at conservatory range I. The figwort family is 

 shown in a single representative from the northwestern 

 United States, Pentstemon Scouleri; many other repre- 

 sentatives of this family are in the herbaceous grounds and 

 in house 2 at conservatory range I. The succeeding group 

 is the honeysuckle family, to which is allotted a large area, 

 there being many hardy kinds; the viburnums are repre- 

 sented by many species, both from the Old World and the 

 New, such as the European cranberry-tree, from Europe, 

 Northern Africa, and Western Asia, ornamental by its 

 masses of bright red fruit; the dwarf cranberry-tree, an 



